TLDR: The red numbers in the jpg are the bottom line percentage performance gains.

 

I wanted FS2020 but had a good inkling it would most likely be a bit of a mess on release so I waited for feedback before purchasing.

IMO sure enough, seeing how 1/2 done FS2020 currently is, and how it will be for a while, I have not yet purchased it and won't until the study sim tubeliners are sorted.

So instead, seeing as though I have hundreds of $$$ invested in FSX, I decided it was finally time for me to upgrade and see if I can stretch FSX's legs a bit more.

The end result is the below accurate as possible personal benchmarks I have done before and after an upgrade of cpu, motherboard and memory.

Hopefully this is helpful for other FSX owners.

• I've tried to keep it apples to apples as possible.
• The graphs I now see are upside down, oh well, deal with it. 🙂
• Both cpu setups were run on reasonable fresh win10 installs.
• Used 4 distinctly varied scenery/location save points.
• Recorded 35 seconds of stabilized info with MSI Afterburner.
• This is bare bones stock FSX retail with Acceleration. (nice to see the MS activation servers are back online, used to have to phone in the code)

 

Important fsx.cfg Settings:

AffinityMask=14
BLOOM_EFFECTS=0
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40
UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=0
WideViewAspect=True
TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024
NUM_LIGHTS=8
AIRCRAFT_SHADOWS=1
AIRCRAFT_REFLECTIONS=1
COCKPIT_HIGH_LOD=1
LANDING_LIGHTS=1
AC_SELF_SHADOW=0
EFFECTS_QUALITY=2
GROUND_SHADOWS=1
TEXTURE_QUALITY=3
IMAGE_QUALITY=0
See_Self=1
D3D10=0
CLOUD_DRAW_DISTANCE=8
DETAILED_CLOUDS=1
CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=8
LENSFLARE=1
DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=1
IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=5
SmallPartRejectRadius=1.0
AirlineDensity=100
GADensity=100
FreewayDensity=100
ShipsAndFerriesDensity=100
LeisureBoatsDensity=100
IFROnly=0
AIRPORT_SCENERY_DENSITY=5
LOD_RADIUS=5.500000
MESH_COMPLEXITY=100
MESH_RESOLUTION=25
TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=29
AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5
DETAIL_TEXTURE=1
WATER_EFFECTS=7

 

 

 

I had an 15-3570K. That thing ran great. I had it OC'd the entire time. I'm getting old so I forget exactly what I had it running at. It was in the ballpark of 4.2 like yours. I thought it was going to give up the ghost early in it's life because I ran it hot (up to the lower-mid 80s°C it's entire life) and there wasn't very good cooling in that system but it just kept going and going until it retired when the 8600K got here. I also ran that one hot for close to 3 years. I'm trying to go a little easier on the 10850K as they are borderline burning up right out of the box. So far, so good. 

Edited January 29, 20215 yr by MDFlier
corect splleing errors

Excellent comparison.  FSX is very much CPU bound.